Beans! Good For Your Heart And That's Not All
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Beans, beans, they're good for your heart… and that's not all!
In this episode of The Exam Room™, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll learns how beans can not only help you lose weight, but also lower cholesterol, reduce the risk of cancer, build muscle and even improve your mood and put a smile on your face!
Dietician Lee Crosby reveals her list of beans with the most fiber and protein. Plus, she shows how you can save hundreds of dollars each year by eating beans instead of beef! Naturally, Lee also had to throw in a few cooking tips and recipes.
You'll also hear the incredibly inspiring story of Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams. The former police officer was able to save his health and reverse type 2 diabetes after adopting a plant-based diet. Now, he's using his position to help improve the health of thousands of children in the city by working to ban cancer-causing foods from schools.
In This Episode
- Why beans truly are "the magical fruit"
- Which beans have the most protein
- Which beans have the most fiber
- How beans can help you lose weight
- How beans lower cholesterol
- Saving money by eating beans instead of beef
- How to reduce gas caused by beans
- The moving story of Eric Adams
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:08.5 | The exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hello. I am the weight loss champion shot Carol |
| 0:13.5 | Thanks for giving the show a download a listen of you |
| 0:15.7 | However, it is that you are consuming this delicious information. We greatly |
| 0:20.7 | Appreciate that this week's topic is a phenomenal one. I cannot tell you how many times growing up |
| 0:27.0 | I heard this phrase |
| 0:28.8 | Beans beans good for the heart the more you eat them the more you |
| 0:33.6 | Anyway |
| 0:35.2 | They're healthy. That's the bottom line |
| 0:37.0 | That's what that jingle taught you growing up and by goodness gracious |
| 0:40.4 | We're going to get to the bottom of just how healthy is a hill of beans and somebody that knows a whole lot about beans |
| 0:47.2 | Or do I know beans about beans? I think that you know a lot about beans |
| 0:52.9 | More bean anyway |
| 0:54.8 | That additionally cross me from the Barnard Medical Center welcome back to the program |
| 0:59.2 | Delighted to be here. There's a reason that I chose you for this particular show. Can you guess it? |
| 1:04.1 | because beans |
| 1:06.1 | And beans have a lot of fiber there you go |
| 1:09.7 | This is the fiber queen |
| 1:11.7 | If you've been listening to the exam room for any length of time you know that Lee has just |
| 1:16.9 | Actually, I'm not going to call it an unhealthy obsession with fiber because fiber is very healthy |
| 1:22.0 | It's so healthy you have a healthy obsession with fiber that is correct. Yeah. Yeah |
| 1:26.9 | So that makes you the perfect candidate for this show |
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